slatey
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.
From The New Yorker
The angle steepened as we went on very slowly now, but still steadily enough, until we reached the rocks, a frail slatey structure with short perpendicular pitches.
From Project Gutenberg
He has a prominent nose, slatey grey eyes and a certain heaviness about the mouth.
From Project Gutenberg
At one place we noticed that the solid slatey rocks were hewn and dressed into shape, and thus formed part of the wall itself, a mixture of Nature’s handiwork and the work of man.
From Project Gutenberg
It was a bank on which slices of slatey stone had been laid, much as in Germany slabs of cold sausage are laid upon bread.
From Project Gutenberg
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